Painting: Birds Of Prey

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Dave Stodden Takes Polygraph Test In The Murders Of His Wife And Daughter

Following up a sad story from last summer, investigators in the deaths of Mary Cooper, and Susanna Stodden, including the FBI, have pushed Dave Stodden to take a polygraph test. Once he took the test, they wanted him to take another. Invetigators have apparently uncovered nothing in the last half year. You never know what really lurks in the heart of men, but Dave Stodden was my daughter's soccer coach for many years. From everything I know of this gentle man, you are more likely to be guilty of this terrible crime than he is.


Dave Stodden

According to The Seattle Times today:

"David Stodden has come to accept that Snohomish County sheriff's investigators might suspect he had a role in the slayings of his wife and an adult daughter while the women were hiking last summer near Mount Pilchuck.


Mary Cooper front, Susanna Stodden back

"Stodden, 58, knows that spouses are often the first suspect in homicide cases, which he says is why he said he never pushed detectives for more details about their investigation into the July 11 slayings. When he was asked in November to take a polygraph test, Stodden said, he was angry but eventually agreed.

"But now, after undergoing questioning by a polygraph examiner on Wednesday — the results coming back inconclusive — Stodden says his patience with the investigation's focus on him is wearing thin.

"Nonetheless, Snohomish County Sheriff Rick Bart wants Stodden, of Seattle, to take the test again in hopes of obtaining a conclusive finding. But Stodden says he doesn't want to.

"I've done everything they've asked me to do, and I want the focus to be on the investigation and not me," Stodden said Friday. "I want them to solve the case. I think if I told them 'I'm not going to do this,' it could become their focus."

Earlier update: Detectives keep pursuing leads in hikers' deaths
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The Tears Of A President

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What would cause The President to weep? Click here to find out.
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Texas teacher charged with felony for zooming in on wrestler's nether regions

A Grand Prairie, Texas high school teacher has been charged under a Texas' peeping-tom law with videotaping girls' wrestling matches for sexual gratification. Sergeant John Brimmer claimed David Ware, 28, took numerous close-up shots of the wrestler's crotches.

"Improper visual recording" is punishable by two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The 2001 law is supposed to protect people from small cameras shooting in bathrooms or up women's skirts. Filming a person without consent for sexual arousal is a felony under the law.

Ware shot two hours of videotape, drawing the suspicion of a coach. Sergeant Brimmer claims the close-ups are "a purposeful act of zooming in." Ware's school was not entered in the tournament; his lawyer says Ware was just interested in girls 'rasslin.

It seems unlikely this law is constitutional. How DO you determine intention in a case like this? To prove sexual gratification would require the police to catch the culprit in flagrante, performing the gratification. And, in fact, schoolteacher Ware was not focused on the genitals at all, but the clothing covering those genitals—a maddening 1/4" beneath those tights.

Ware's attorney, Scott Palmer, asked "If you go to a Cowboys game and take a close-up shot of their cleavage, are you committing the same offense because you think that has sex appeal?" Would all the paparazzi in the world be guilty?
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The Arctic Blast Continues

I know how laughable it is to many of you to hear what kind of chaos an inch or two of snow can cause in the northwest. We just don't have much experience. There is a narrow band of temperature here—the overall average is 52°F, the August average is 66°F, and the coldest month (January) averages 41°F. In our last cold snap, everyone's power was off; at least we have juice this time!
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Poem: Snow Day In Kirkland, Wash.

In silhouette
Against blue bisque skies,
Crows bounce

On white tree branches,
Shaking snow to the ground.
They survey the valley

For prey
In stark relief
Against the powder-white fields.
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One More Reason Why I Am Scared Sh**less To Fly: Video Of Fixing A Jet's Wing With Duct Tape

If this video doesn't play—and, for some reason, they don't
always want to play—just go here on YouTube to see the clip.
Or go to Turbanhead's blog to the clip.


This is one of the reasons I need to be well-medicated to even approach an airport. I have flown more in the last few months than I have in all my life, and I have even made some of the flights without Xanax or any other sundry pharmaceuticals I beg from my Doctor and various people I know. A second reason I am terrified of flying is that about half of my high school classmates ended up as shoprats at Boeing. Knowing who actually builds these 'planes might give you pause as well, dear readers. . .
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Alien Lore No. 96 - Alien Sex: Antonio Villas Boas' Mad Night Of Alien Debauchery

23-year-old Antonio Villas Boas is the star of what is probably the most famous case of sex with aliens. It all went down on October 16, 1957, although Antonio believes he had seen the alien ship(s) for about two weeks prior to his abduction.


The grey temptress as described
by Boas

The ploughboy was working a field on his family farm when the engine of his tractor died and purple lights came down from the sky.

Greys in spacesuits emerged from a flying saucer and took him into their craft, and ran him throhgh a battery of what seemed to be medical tests. They took his clothes off (a recurring theme in most of these stories), spread a strange liquid over him and took a blood sample. And then, a beautiful, fair-haired, naked woman appeared.

Without speaking or kissing, they made love. She growled like a dog. Perhaps due to the alien liquid (a sort of interstellar Viagra?), Antonio was soon ready for seconds. "Before leaving she turned to me, pointed to her belly, and smilingly pointed to the sky."



Post-coitus, the aliens gave Antonio a guided tour of the spaceship. It was about 5:30 in the morning when Boas returned to his tractor, by his reckoning four and a quarter hours from the time he had been picked up. Antonio become a successful lawyer and still stands by his story 50 years later.

To read a detailed account of Antonio's wild night of Grey love, go to one of my favorite paranormal/conspiracy sites, the Illuminati Conspiracy Archive. There is a link to the main site on my links sidebar. You might also want to check out one of these books that also cover the story:

Architects of the Underworld: Unriddling Atlantis, Anomalies of Mars, and the Mystery of the Sphinx, by Bruce Rux; pp. 109-116

Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds, by Jacques Vallee; pp. 113-115

Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs, by Ralph Blum with Judy Blum; pp. 182-184

If you read Spanish, check out this web site: LA ABDUCCION DE ANTONIO VILLAS BOAS.
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Alien Lore No. 95 - Are The Greys Out There Watching The Sopranos?

TV signals will be sent into space in 2008, according to Scotsman.com, to establish whether aliens—if they are indeed Out There—are watching television. Astronomers will search 1,000 nearby stars for TV broadcasts and other signals that may indicate extraterrestrial life. A Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics spokesperson said the project, will use a new radio telescope to search for radio traffic.

Our current efforts to smoke out extraterrestrial life are almost always focused on searching for messages beamed across space, which would miss a civilization that is not actively seeking contact, as some of our earth folk do.

David Aguilar, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics director of communications, said: "We may pick up spurious signals from people that never meant for us to hear them and get an inkling that something's going on."



A telescope under construction in Australian will avoid most terrestrial radio interference. The project will detect signals within roughly 30 light years of earth (about 1,000 stars).

This project will be rolled out right here in Seattle, at a conference of the American Astronomical Society this Wednesday.
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The Pat Robertson Coloring Book

The Pat Robertson coloring book is now available. What are you waiting for?!


Some other recent Pat Robertson mentions on All This Is That:

God Warning of big storms
Islam is Satanic
Jesusland in Jeopardy?
Assassinate President Chavez?
Pat Robertson keeps his foot out of his mouth for two weeks!
More wisd0m from Pat
I didn't say that? Did I?
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President Bush sets new goals for Iraq

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According to The New York Times on Sunday, President George W. Bush President will establish "a series of goals that the Iraqi government will be expected to meet to try to ease sectarian tensions and stabilize the country politically and economically, senior administration officials said Sunday. "

Wait, didn't we do that two years ago? The difference is this time we really really really mean it.
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Poem: Changes 27/Taking Care

1
Pay heed to nourishment
And with what a person seeks
To fill their own mouth—

2
To know what anyone is like
Observe how they bestow love and mercy
And what part of their nature

They nurture
A person of goodness takes care
In order to take care of others

3
At the foot of the mountain
Thunder—
An image of nourishment

Thunder and lightning
Feed into the earth
And charge it like Frankenstein's monster

4
You let the magic turtle go
And train your sharp eyes
Like a tiger with a craving

5
Awareness of danger
Brings good fortune
As you cross the great water.
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